Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Artistic swimming at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Paris Aquatic Centre
Dates	5–10 August 2024
No. of events	2 (1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	96 from 18 nations
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Artistic swimming is a beautiful sport that combines swimming, dance, and gymnastics. Athletes perform routines in the water, moving together in sync with music. It used to be called synchronized swimming.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, artistic swimming competitions took place from August 5 to 10. They were held at the Paris Aquatic Centre. This time, fewer than 100 athletes competed, with 96 participants in total. There were two main events: the women's duet and the mixed team event.

For the Paris 2024 Games, some big changes were made to artistic swimming. These changes aimed to make the sport more equal for everyone and include more countries. In 2022, the sport's governing body, World Aquatics, voted to allow men to compete in the team event. A team could have up to two male members. However, no men were chosen to compete in the 2024 Olympics.

This was also a special Olympics because, for the first time since 2000, a country other than Russia won a gold medal in artistic swimming. Russia was not allowed to compete in these Olympics.

How Athletes Qualified

To get a spot in the Olympics, teams and duets had to qualify. For the team event, the best team from each of the five major regions (like Asia, Africa, etc.) earned a spot. The host country, France, automatically got a spot for Europe. The remaining five spots were decided at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.

For the duet event, the top duet from each of the five regions that did not already have a qualified team got a spot. The last three spots were also decided at the 2024 World Championships. All ten countries that qualified for the team event also had to choose two members to form a duet.

Countries that Qualified

This table shows which countries qualified for the artistic swimming events and how many athletes they sent.

Nation	Team	Duet	Athletes
Australia			8
Austria	N/A		2
Canada			8
China			8
Egypt			8
France			8
Great Britain	N/A		2
Greece	N/A		2
Italy			8
Israel	N/A		2
Japan			8
South Korea	N/A		2
Mexico			8
Netherlands	N/A		2
New Zealand	N/A		2
Spain			8
Ukraine	N/A		2
United States			8
Total: 18 NOCs	80	16	96

Participating Nations

Here are all the countries that sent athletes to compete in artistic swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics:

Competition Schedule

The artistic swimming events took place over several days. All times listed below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

The competition on August 6th was opened by Bill May, a famous artistic swimmer.

Medal Summary

Medal Table

This table shows which countries won medals in artistic swimming.

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
4	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Here are the athletes who won medals in the artistic swimming events:

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Duet details	China Wang Qianyi Wang Liuyi	Great Britain Kate Shortman Isabelle Thorpe	Netherlands Bregje de Brouwer Noortje de Brouwer
Team details	China Chang Hao Cheng Wentao Feng Yu Wang Ciyue Wang Liuyi Wang Qianyi Xiang Binxuan Xiao Yanning Zhang Yayi	United States Anita Alvarez Jaime Czarkowski Megumi Field Keana Hunter Audrey Kwon Calista Liu Jacklyn Luu Daniella Ramirez Ruby Remati	Spain Txell Ferré Marina García Polo Lilou Lluís Valette Meritxell Mas Alisa Ozhogina Paula Ramírez Sara Saldaña Iris Tió Blanca Toledano

See Also

In Spanish: Natación artística en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños

• Artistic swimming at the 2022 Asian Games
• Artistic swimming at the 2023 European Games
• Artistic swimming at the 2023 Pan American Games